Panda birthday, Colombia gold, Sri Lanka fisherman

After a relentless stretch of dreary weather the sun makes a dramatic return to Maine, rising east of Ram Island Ledge Light at the mouth of Portland Harbor on Thursday. Dry weather will be a welcomed relief to a region that has received more than 13 inches of rain since Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. manuever to where gunfire was coming from on Thursday in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan . The Marines are part of Operation Khanjari which was launched to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a resupply route and to help the local Afghan population prepare for the upcoming presidential elections. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Afghans stand around the crater caused by a bomb blast in Mohammad Agha district on the main road from Kabul to Logar province, Afghanistan on Thursday. The blast killed 25 people including 13 primary school students, destroying shops and scattering pieces of the vehicle that carried the explosives over a huge area, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

A displaced Pashtun woman covers her face during a meeting near the village of Kafta Khana, Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan on Thursday. Hundreds of Pashtuns were forced to leave their villages by local Tajiks within the Baghlan province. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

South Korean fire fighters rescue people from a truck in a stream swollen by torrential rain in Gapyeong, South Korea on Thursday. The Korea Meteorological Administration Wednesday issued torrential rain warnings for five provinces in South Korea. (AP Photo/Yonhap)

Brazilian artists Gabriel Primo, left, and Tiago Primo sit in their installation art work, exhibited on the wall of a building, in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes)

Frank Getty, 82, drives his 1940 Farmall H tractor up to his cows to herd them in to the barn from the pasture at his Catawissa, Pa., farm along Mount Zion Road on Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, Jimmy May)

A young Pakistani boy, Hassan, 5 years old, internally displaced from the Swat Valley, receives treatment for a leg condition, as his mother holds him in her arms at the Bahria Town mobile field hospital at the Yar Hussain UNHCR camp in Chota Lahore on Thursday in Swabi district, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

Giant panda Tai Shan checks out his birthday cake at the National Zoo Thursday in Washington, DC. The zoo held an event to celebrate the panda's fourth birthday with a frozen cake made from water, bamboo, shredded beets and beet juice. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

People pan for gold along the Dagua River in Zaragoza, Colombia on Wednesday. Several families make a living by sifting through the silt of Dagua River in search for gold which they sell for $20 dollars per gram. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)

President Barack Obama, center, leaves the stage after he and Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, far left, announced an agreement on climate change at the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy on Thursday. Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, second left, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, third left, and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, fourth right, also leave the stage. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

A giant portrait of US President Barak Obama is seen in an aerial view in the countryside of Mena' di Castagnaro, near Verona in Northern Italy on Thursday. The portrait, along with the words, "The hope is in the land", covers approximately 29,500 square yards. Italian artist Dario Gambarin used a tractor drawing a harrow, without previous tracing on the field, during a 90 minutes performance on July 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Gambarin)

Fahreta Dudic, a Bosnian Muslim, weeps near coffin of her father among coffins of other Srebrenica victims at the memorial center of Potocari near Srebrenica, 75 miles northeast of Sarajevo on Thursday. The 534 bodies were excavated from mass-graves in Eastern Bosnia and were identified as Muslims killed by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Srebrenica area. The victims will be buried on July 11 in the Memorial Center Potocari, next to some 3,500 victims of the massacre already buried there. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Odin, a white Bengal tiger, dives for a piece of meat at the opening of the new Odin's Temple of the Tiger exhibit at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on Thursday in Vallejo, Calif. (AP photo/Russel A. Daniels)

A Sri Lankan fisherman, also known locally as a stick fisherman, sits perched on a stilt fixed into the ocean floor as he fishes in Koggala area, south of Galle, Sri Lanka on Thursday. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

Palestinian workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency work to remove rubble of a factory destroyed in January 2009 during Israel's offensive in Gaza, in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Removing the rubble is the first step taken by the UN as part of the reconstruction plan for Gaza after the war. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A "Santero" holds roosters to be sacrificed during an African-Cuban religious Santeria ceremony in honor of ocean goddess Yemaya at the annual Caribbean festival in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba on Wednesday. The annual cultural event features religious ceremonies, street shows, concerts, conferences and art exhibits. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Balancing artist Wang Junru entertains during a dress rehearsal in Auckland, Wednesday, for Dralion, Cirque du Soleil's latest show to tour New Zealand. The show is on at Auckland's Alexandra Park until August 23. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Dean Purcell)